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My musing about life, work and trying to make the extraordinary happen ... and some of the things that get in the way. Placeholders of possibility, indicators of the inspirational, enablers of emergence, reflections on my realities ... you get the picture.

Positive psychology is a recent branch of psychology focused on the development of positive human functioning. The aim of the positive psychology movement is the exploration and scientific understanding of effective interventions to build thriving individuals, families, and communities. Positive psychologists seek to find and nurture genius and talent and to make normal life more fulfilling.

At the core of positive psychology is the cultivation of human adaptability, creativity and emotional fulfilment with the term ‘flourishing’ used to denote the affirming outcome of a positive psychology grounded intervention.

to live within the optimal range of human functioning, one that connotes goodness, generativity, growth and resilience.

There are literally thousands of activities an individual or group of people can practice to cultivate their flourishing. For example:

at the end of each day for one week identify the three things you are most grateful for having experienced;

for three consecutive days, write a short statement of your ideal life five years from now;

identify a person that made a significant positive impact to your life and go and tell them what they mean to you;

convene a ‘Happiness Board’ of 5 people you respect and ask them to hold you accountable for being your best self for the world;

pay active attention to your experiences throughout the day to try and catch yourself feeling wonderful; and

conduct a personal audit of your strengths and complete an action plan (with rewards!) for actively using your strengths each day.

According to positive psychology practitioners anyone can act with intention to systematically cultivate a flourishing experience in life. Practices can be grouped according to the acronym PERMA, which represents the following:

Positive Emotions – feeling good!

What aspects of your daily work generate positive emotions for you?

What can you do to bring more positive emotion and enjoyment into your daily routine?

Dr. Richard Harmer | Play a Different Game

I'm an ideapreneur. I challenge current paradigms, create new possibilities, and realise different futures.

I am a prolific idea generator and I challenge the status-quo and make things happen. I am always looking for new and novel ideas and approaches to delivering business value and social impact.

The best way to describe how I do this is by sharing a simple model I have identified, which I call the Idea Map. The Idea Map uses two key idea generation principles:Different Thinking and Future Thinking.

Rated one of Australia's top 20 most inspiring entrepreneurs by entrepreneur blog site 'Profitialist'